It's a common need to want to save and export a Microsoft Word document as a different file type. Fortunately, you can use Microsoft Word to export documents in a variety of file types, including PDF.

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For a long time, Adobe’s PDF file format has been the format for legal and business documents, largely because they most closely resemble their hardcopy versions — and because they can be locked down ...